Which is more harmful: ta'til (denial of the divine attributes) or abandoning action?

The questioner : Because they describe Allah as having a self, and they describe Allah as not managing affairs and not understanding, and that the manager is what is from before Allah in their view, they. But O Shaykh, the one who affirms lordship but abandons action and abandons the commands of the Shari'ah, O Shaykh, is his sin greater or is their sin greater, the one who speaks or the one who practices ta'til, O Shaykh?

The Shaykh : By Allah, there is no doubt that the harm of the person who claims to belong to Islam, but who has in him varieties of the most abominable religious innovations (bid'ah), is more harmful to Islam than the one who is openly hostile to Islam.

The questioner : Because they make people doubt, they make people doubt the religion, and they claim Islam, and they make people doubt the power of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He).

The Shaykh : But mention the verse that Ibn al-Qayyim mentioned in the al-Nuniyyah, he said: "If your Lord had willed, you would also have been like them, for the heart is between the fingers of the Merciful." That means, thank your Lord that Allah has kept you safe from their path, and ask for steadfastness for them.